Is this an easy A?
FairEffort
58/100Older students report easy As with modest effort, but and grade-damaging glitches.
Online grades suffered from broken systems; older in-person reviews report easy As.
CIS101 · CIS10180 · CISC181 · CISC190 · CIS181 · MIS180 · 19 lifetime ratings
The decision
Key questions
Is this an easy A?
Older students report easy As with modest effort, but x x x x x and grade-damaging glitches.
Online grades suffered from broken systems; older in-person reviews report easy As.
Is the course easy?
Material is usually described as tedious more than conceptually hard if you follow the textbook.
Online felt harder due to tech issues; x x x x x x but time-consuming.
Is attendance flexible?
x x x x x while others say no; comments rarely center on attendance enforcement.
x x x x x x; in-person reports are mixed.
Is this professor recommended?
x x x x x x, while many older students recommend him if you need the class.
x x x x; older in-person cohort often recommends.
Course guide
Grading
Fair
52/100
x x x x and generous with time; others call him inflexible with x x.
Format shift
Online and recent reviews lean tough; older in-person lean easy.
Workload
Moderate
42/100
Lots of homework and projects, plus unit exams, but many say the work is tedious rather than brutal.
Format shift
Online and MIS courses feel heavier; some CISC181 students finished work in lab.
Teaching experience
Average
44/100
caring tutor in older years versus unhelpful and x x x x.
Format shift
Online experience is poor; x x x x x x x.
Assessment method
Balanced
58/100
Mix of x x x x x x, and a x x.
Format shift
Both formats x x x x x; x x x x x.
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Course format
Classroom format
High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro
Older students praise patience and easy As; later students x x x x x, and self-teaching.
Main concern
Inconsistent organization and limited classroom help.
What students said
“Get ready to teach yourself”
“I got an A+ and didn't really put in a lot of effort”
“All quizzes and x x x x”
Remote format
Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro
x x x x x x x, and unhelpful responses.
Main concern
x x x and no timely professor support.
What students said
“Most the assignments and x x x and you end up getting things wrong because of bad programming”
“After 2 weeks of no response from the professor after asking about multiple conflicting due dates”
Exam style
Several students report open-book quizzes and tests, though online assessments can be buggy.
Assessment risk
StudentFriendly
72/100
Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.
In person, quizzes and tests are often open book; one MIS course x x x x x x x x x.
“All quizzes and x x x x”
“3 unit exams with a x x”
Online reviews stress glitchy assignments and tests more than proctoring rules.
“Most the assignments and x x x and you end up getting things wrong because of bad programming”
Student evidence
Top student voice
“Get ready to teach yourself.”
“Get ready to teach yourself”
“He's a completely disorganized, inflexible grader who leaves curriculum mistakes for the next class to figure out”
“All quizzes and x x x x”
“x x x x and patient with his students and he is very knowledgable”
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Data context
Analysis sample
19
Recent reviews read by the AI
19
Lifetime ratings
78/100
Evidence confidence
Nineteen reviews spanning 2013-2022 with a x x x; enough detail and volume for a solid but time-sensitive read.
Inside 19 stored ratings
Reported outcomes
4 reported outcomes
A 2
No reported values
C 1
No reported values
No reported values
Drop/Withdrawal 1